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What is affiliate marketing? Affiliate
marketing is a very effective system of online marketing that
involves connecting a website with a larger website via links and
banners. This 'smaller' website plays the role of marketing the
'larger' website as internet users keep clicking and getting directed
to the larger website.
This system it uses of marketing makes it the easiest way of making
fast and good money online. The marketer is paid per every click
made on the links. How neat is that? Imagine the hundreds of millions
of internet users all being potential sources of income?
This affiliate marketing pay program is known as Pay Per Click.
The marketer is paid for providing leads which in other words are
potential customers. This is regardless of whether these leads spend
money in the promoted site or not.
A pay program that pays better than this one is Pay Per Performance.
In this, the marketer is paid more than in PPC but the leads have
to spend money in the promoted websites. This in turn generates
into commissions for the marketers. Most companies pay an approximate
average of about fifteen to thirty percent in PPP.
Another thing that makes affiliate marketing so excellent is the
fact that it does not require a capital. This is unlike other businesses
where you have to start off with quite a large sum of money and
hope you get returns plus profits. All you need in the case of affiliate
marketing is just some basic knowledge, and maybe a few dollars
to help you create your own website.
If you want to be successful and make a good income every month
in affiliate marketing you need to have a website of your own. Therefore
the first step in this business for a serious affiliate marketer
is building one. This can easily be done using web hosting sites
such as AOL or Yahoo Geocites.
Please note that you do not need any web design expertise for this
because all you need is just pay a small fee and you are granted
access to some pre-designed web templates for you to design your
websites. This should take less than two hours before you are through.
After finishing this what would be left for you is visiting affiliate
program directories and picking out websites to affiliate or market
according to the deals they offer.
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